Microsoft Posts Impressive Q1 Results

From DailyTech: Apple isn't the only tech company that can knock one out of the park when it comes to earnings reports. Microsoft just announced its first quarter results and things are looking pretty good for the fellas from Redmond.

Microsoft reported a 25 percent increase in...

Apple iPhone May Get Reprogrammable SIM Card

From DailyTech: Currently switching carriers on the iPhone requires third-party workarounds and can be a bit of a chore, even if your desired carrier uses GSM, the current iPhone 3G technology of choice.

According to a report by GigaOM, sources at various European carriers are...

Google: Android was our best acquisition ever

From CNET News.com: Out of all of Google's acquisitions, the company's acquisition of the maker of the Android mobile operating system was its "best deal ever," a company executive said at an industry conference yesterday.

Speaking at the Stanford Accel Symposium yesterday, David...

Mobile Graphics Adapters Declined Most in Q3 - Mercury Research

From X-bit Labs: The third quarter of 2010 was not good for shipments of graphics adapters at all. The only category that got a boost was desktop discrete graphics cards, whereas mobile adapters and all integrated solutions declined in terms of unit shipments, according to numbers...

Intel’s China Fab Starts Operations

From X-bit Labs: Intel Corp.’s first manufacturing plant in China this week started operations. Initially the fab will produce affordable core-logic sets using not really advanced process technology, but eventually the situation may change.

“For 25 years now, Intel has been...

Intel joins bid to halve the cost of data centers

From InfoWorld: Intel is working with a group of Taiwanese companies and a government research center on a project that aims to slash the cost of a data center by nearly half.

The company is contributing chips, motherboards, and software to the project, as well as other engineering...

Oracle Takes Stake in Infiniband Vendor Mellanox

From PC World: Oracle announced late Wednesday that it has taken a 10.2 percent stake in Mellanox Technologies, maker of Infiniband interconnects for servers and storage systems.

Mellanox's InfiniBand technologies were already being used in Oracle's growing line of high-performance...

Firefox 4 release slips to 2011

From CNET News.com: Mozilla has pushed back the planned Firefox 4 release to 2011, a delay that's no surprise given the difficulties in releasing the first full-featured beta of the open-source browser--but that also gives breathing room for several competitors.

Mozilla had hoped...

Android pushes Motorola into black

From CNET News.com: The U.S.-based cell phone maker reported today that its mobile device business posted an operating profit for the first time since 2006. The company had not expected this unit to turn a profit until 2011.The company, which announced third quarter earnings, also...

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